MANITOWOC - Maple Leaf Dairy, a business that operates several dairy farms in Manitowoc County, has been charged $85,000 in fines and court costs for water pollution and wastewater violations.

A local diary farm was charged with violating state water quality standards after last week’s heavy rains allegedly washed manure off a field and into a tributary feeding the Owasco ...

NEW VIENNA — Three farmers in the Headwaters North Fork Maquoketa River Watershed last week showed what they are doing to keep dairy and beef feedlot runoff out of waterways.

Water from plate coolers often goes on to be reused three or more places in a dairy operation. On Moore’s farm, along with many other farms across the U.S., it next becomes the cows’ drinking ...

The Fox River watershed is a veritable sink of runoff from cities and farms that empties into ... dairy farm is about 150 cows. And ... years amid dairy’s downturn. Jeff Smudde, NEW Water’s ...

The Kewaunee-based dairy farm won an Outstanding Dairy Farm Sustainability award from the Innovation ... from manure use and cow health to cover crops that help prevent water and soil runoff. ...

Animal agriculture is a major source of water pollution in the United States, as manure runoff carries excess nutrients into rivers and lakes. Because of their non-point source nature, most farms ...

In the high-profile case, a dairy farming family is pitted against neighbors who say runoff from the farm channels through their land and into Lake Champlain. by Emma Cotton May 24, 2024, 5:53 pm ...